A Moroccan magot or Berber monkey (
Macaca sylvana) waits in the middle of the road for tourists to give him food on in the central Moroccan town of Azrou in the Atlas mountains. The Moroccan magot, a protected species, is endangered because of droughts and poaching

Steve Woollard climbs one of the UK's tallest trees, the grand fir tree in Blair castle in Perthshire. This tree was
beaten this week to the title of Britain's tallest tree by the Stronardon douglas fir near Dunans castle in Argyllshire. It was planted in 1848 but was only measured accurately on 19 February 2009 by Mark Tansley and Steve Woollard, two Hampshire arboriculturalists

Two-month-old Bornean orang utan baby, Ah Meng Junior, hangs on to her mother, Anita at the Singapore Zoo on 20 February. The population of the Bornean orang utan is endangered due to habitat destruction, forest fires and poaching for the illegal pet trade

A handout photo issued by the Zoological Society of London of a rare photo of a cheetah that has been photographed by scientists in the Algerian Sahara using special camera traps. There are thought to be less than 250 adult north-west African or Saharan cheetahs, making the subspecies critically endangered, but very little is known about the cat

A boot among fish skeletons at "la Chueca" rubbish dump, next to Xolotlan lake, in Managua, Nicaragua. A sewage treatment plant, built with German aid, to clean up the polluted lake into which a main part of Managua's sewage has been poured since 1927, began operating this month

A family of foxes who have baffled wildlife experts after setting up home in a tree - 30-foot off the ground. Donna Martell, 26, of Ipswich, Suffolk, first spotted the animals in her back garden earlier this month. Since then, she and her partner, Carl Clark, 33, have seen them on an almost daily basis, with three spotted at one time. Julian Roughton, of Suffolk Wildlife Trust, said it was an "unusual" nesting place for foxes, which are normally associated with underground burrows

Brown hares, which are famous for 'boxing' in spring, have declined 75% in the past 50 years, said the
Wildlife Trusts. Losses have been caused by the conversion of grassland to arable farming, changes to planting regimes and reductions in different habitats in the countryside

A shop owner displays carved ivory items at his antique shop in Hanoi, Vietnam. Illegal trade in ivory is threatening the elephant population in south-east Asia. There are thought to be less than 150 wild elephants left in Vietnam

View of an Asian orchid at the National Orchid Exhibition in San Jose, Costa Rica. Some 300 different species of the plant, the majority of them from Costa Rica, are on display during the 10-day exhibition